I wanted to discuss bloodletting some more. To me each iteration has been slightly worse than the last, including the most recent change which felt more like a nerf than a buff to me.
It seems like they are worried about him getting early game techs so I had a thought. What if it scaled by age like Tezca’s devotion bonus? As the game goes on 3 favor/min becomes increasingly worthless and the 2 pop it takes to generate it becomes increasingly harder to give up. What if it scaled each age so it was valuable all game, but didn’t give him too much early game power?
What I don’t really get about this Bloodletting mechanic is why only one god out of three gets access to it.
I like this mechanic because it’s the only way the Aztecs can generate Favor in a more reliable and consistent way, more in line with how most other pantheons collect Favor. But giving it only to Quetzalcoatl just adds more unnecessary and excessive asymmetry.
Remove the other Favor bonuses from the other two gods (one of them is bugged anyway) and give Bloodletting to all three, then we can start talking about numbers and how to buff it properly.